Project Description
Jamil Chade
Brazil
The award winning journalist Jamil Chade has spent over two decades travelling more than 70 countries to collect stories of real people and to understand the depth of social, cultural, political and economic transformations. He has also travelled with two popes, met war criminals, unsung heroes and activists who, in their communities, saved lives and dreams. In 2025 alone, his daily column reached 45 millions views.
Living in Switzerland since 2000, Chade is the author of ten books, four of which were finalists for the Jabuti Prize, the main book award in Brazil. Among the awards he has received, the journalist has twice been voted the best Brazilian foreign correspondent by Comunique-se. In the same year he was awarded the 2nd most admired journalist in Brazil. He has also won the Audálio Dantas Prize for his work for democracy in Brazil, the Prix Nicolas Bouvier in Switzerland for his book on hunger, as well as several other international awards. Chade is an ambassador for the Adus Institute, a humanitarian agency helping refugees in Brazil, board member of the Vladimir Herzog Institute – one of the main human rights NGOs in Brazil – and a member of the Freedom of Expression Commission of the Brazilian Bar Association. He was one of the researchers of the National Truth Commission, created in 2014 in Brazil in order to investigate crimes against humanity committed by the Military Junta (1964-1985). Chade was president of the Foreign Press Association in Switzerland and has contributed to international media such as the BBC, CNN, El País, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, France24, La Sexta and others.
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I Hope You Get Deported: A Journey Through American Dystopia
I Hope You Get Deported: A Journey Through American Dystopia (“Tomara que você seja deportado: Uma viagem pela distopia Americana”) is a dive into a devastating scenario from any point of view, highlighting the magnitude of the existential crisis in American society. The book was chosen among the best releases in Brazil in 2025, was praised by the press in dozens of articles, and was the best-selling book at the International Literary Festival in Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro.
Covering the period between Donald Trump’s election campaign and the beginning of the eugenic efforts of his immigration policy, the American tragedy here takes on a face and materiality. Chade travels through the places where hatred and resentment, poverty and illusion spread, from Manhattan to the wall with Mexico, from a historic rally at Madison Square Garden to shelters for deportees in border cities. In journeys of thousands of kilometers through 15 American states, what the reader glimpses is a humanitarian, ethical, political, and spiritual disaster.
The unmistakable atmosphere of persecution, the immigrant’s fear of being hunted. But also the perversity of the Trumpist offensive regarding other issues, such as education and the rights of LGBTQIA+ people, once relevant to the composition of a scenario, a world order, that glorified the nation that appropriated the term “America.”
In the words of Walter Salles, winner of the 2025 Oscar for Best Director and who presents this book, it is “not only an extraordinary journalistic work, but also a highly lucid essay on how democracies can succumb.”
The journalist’s work here, also marked by personal experience, reveals the symbolic crumbling of the solidity that consecrated the United States of America as the most powerful nation in the world. A nation that demolishes itself with the reckless blows of an authoritarian leader.
RIGHTS
In collaboration with Editora Nós, Brazil
NON-FICTION (selection)
The Earth Is Round: A Conversation about Politics, Passions and Football
(“A Terra é redonda: um bate-bola sobre política, paixões e futebol”)
São Paulo: Editora Nós 2026, 176 p.
(with Milly Lacombe)
I Hope You Get Deported: A Journey Through American Dystopia
(“Tomara que você seja deportado: Uma viagem pela distopia Americana”)
São Paulo: Editora Nós 2026, 231 p.
NOVEL
Abraham’s Journey: Faith, Love and War in Journeys Separated by Time
(“O caminho de Abraão: Fé, amor e guerra em travessias separadas pelo tempo”)
São Paulo: Editora Planeta 2018, 304 p.
France: L’Harmattan 2020 (Foreword by Jean Ziegler)
BIOGRAPHY (selection)
The Indomitable: João Carlos Martins Between Sound and Silence
(“O indomável: João Carlos Martins entre som e silêncio”)
Rio de Janeiro: Record 2024, 196 p.
CHRONICLES
Mourning: Reflections on Reinventing the Future
(“Luto: Reflexões Sobre a Reinvenção do Futuro”)
São Paulo: Editora Contracorrente 2022, 174 p.
